The Lexus RC F’s engine bay is home to Lexus’s most powerful V8 to date. To get its music out beyond the clouds, Lexus partnered with Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Astrophysics, harnessing the southern hemisphere’s largest radio telescope to send the sound of the V8 encoded in an audio waveform, along with the message “New Lexus RC F. Earth. We’ve been expecting you.”

The 5.0-litre naturally aspirated piece makes 472 horsepower and does sound otherworldly, so maybe the aliens will appreciate it. Or maybe they’ll hate it and we’ll be wishing that MiB was a real thing and Tommy Lee Jones was on his way to save us with his old-man strength.

The message was directed toward Orion’s Belt. Scientists at the centre say they expect to know if anyone or anything received the message in a few thousand years or so.